State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. . Davis · State v. Lawrence · State v. Brickell.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously, a defendant, called upon to plead to an indictment, cannot plead guilty to an offense which the indictment does not charge him with having committed. Consequently, upon a plea of guilty he may not be given a sentence in excess of the maximum provided by the statute for the offense charged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The caption of an indictment ... is not part of it and the designation therein of the offense sought to be charged can neither enlarge nor diminish the offense charged in the body of the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilkes
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.